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IQ is an extremely anti-empirical, tautological conception of "intelligence", favored by those who "think they can understand the universe by sitting on the couch and sipping on whisky", as physicst Sean Carroll says. By anti-empirical, I just mean IQ tests under-rate the role of experience and intuition. I scored around 98 consistently on various measures, yet I could maintain a 4.0, by my Junior year in college (including scoring 105% in Calculus) - although my SAT predicted bottom 20th percentile. Since then, I have tutored a few students in the several college math courses. I developed and sold two computer programs (CRM systems), one of them to Dodge dealership, which effectively saved the company 23k a year in secretarial work. Ironically, with some abstract insight, which I supposedly lack, I also discovered a corporate theif, who had been stealing money for 10 years, under admin's noses. I have been a top sales performer at 2 of my jobs, and my income has been in the top 80 percentile. I came up with a unique solution to the THREE DIE PROBLEM, which I've never seen proposed before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJ4LeACUm4 . I can score around 150, on the SIGMA test, which is considered to be a good test of creativity and mathematical insight, clearly exceeding the number correct by the average individivual, college student, a Phd, and even higher than what's expected from a MENSA member. All that being said, if IQ can't predict adult level achivements and accolades, such as I've described - accolades that most 100 IQ people don't have, then why do so many indulge in the delusion that IQ is a sole indicator of "intelligence"? It seems, the notion that IQ tests measure "intelligence", is more of a convenience, which those who are privledged, can utilize against empirically gifted minds. It's no wonder why a die hard empiricist like Richard Feynman didn't score well - because he is wired the other way around. While the rationilists wonders what comes next in the series, 41, 56, 260, x, the empiricist is busy inventing the set.